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flglpTo  be  admitted  to  the  Freshman  class  an  ap- 
plicant must  be  at  least  sixteen  years  of  age.  Average 
age  of  Freshmen,   eighteen  ;  of  seniors,   twenty-two. 

...  A  COLLEGE  ... 

maintaining  the  standards  of  the  great  Eastern  colleges 
for  both  admission  and  graduation.  All  instructors  are 
specialists  in  their  respective  subjects.  No  weakened 
courses  ;  no  meaningless  diplomas  ;  group  system,  every 
group  both  leading  to  and  deserving  the  degree  of 

BACHELOR  OF   ARTS. 


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THE  BUILDINGS. 

TT  is  not  possible  to  represent  all  the  Col- 
lege Buildings  from  a  single  point  of 
view.  (See  plat  inside  of  cover).  The  cen- 
tral group  is  here  given;  there  are  five  other 
buildings. 

All  the  buildings  were  planned  and 
erected  for  the  uses  to  which  they  are 
applied,  and  contain  every  convenience  for 
comfort  and  for  work.  The  floor  space,  if 
spread  out,  would  cover  six  acres. 

COST  OF  BUILDINGS 

EXCLUSIVE  OF  GROUND. 

Goucher  Hall, $135,000 

Katharine  Hooper  Hall 80,000 

Bennett  Hall, 00,000 

Biological  Building,       ......  50,000 

Homes — four  ;  each  about  80,000,  .  320,000 


THE  WOMAN'S   COLLEGE 

OF   BALTIMORE. 

REV.  JOHN  F.  GOUCHER,  A.M.,  D.  D., 

President. 


Professors  and  Instructors, 27 

Men,  1  1.    Women,  16. 


Chartered, 1885 

Opened, 1888 

First  Class  Graduated,    .    .    .     1892 

Alumnae,  June  1,  1897, 134 

Class  of  '92, 5 

Class  of  '93, 10 

Class  of  '94, 16 

Class  of  '95, 23 

Class  of  '96, 38 

Class  of  '97, 42 

Number  of  Students,  1  897-'98 243 


RELIGIOUS  INFLUENCES. 


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H^HIS  College  was  founded  for  the 
1       purpose  of  offering  young  women 

facilities  for  a  thorough  collegiate  edu- 
\  cation    under  conditions  that   might  be 

equally  favorable  to  physical  and  moral 
well-being.  It  does  not  seek  to  inculcate  the  doc- 
trines of  any  particular  expression  of  Christian  faith  ; 
its  instructors  are  selected  for  their  ability,  without 
reference  to  denominational  relations.  Students  of 
every  faith  are  welcomed,  but  the  new  testament 
ideal  of  character  is  presented,  and  every  legiti- 
mate influence  brought  to  bear  in  order  to  its  de- 
velopment. 


REQUIREMENTS  FOR  ADMISSION. 

H^HESE  are  essentially  the  same  as  those  of  other 
1  Eastern  colleges  of  first  rank.  Graduates  of  first- 
class  high  schools  should  have  sufficient  preparation  to 
enter.  Latin  must  be  offered  to  the  extent  usually 
given  in  a  four  years'  high  school  course.  One  other 
language  is  required,  which  may  be  Greek,  German, 
or  French — about  as  much  as  is  usually  given  in  three 
years  of  a  high  school  course.  Mathematics  as  far  as 
Plane  Geometry.  Thorough  acquaintance  with  Eng- 
lish Grammar,  principles  of  rhetoric  and  elementary  criti- 
cism, with  ability  to  express  thought  clearly  and  cor- 
rectly in  writing.  Grecian  and  Roman  history,  or 
English  and  American  history.  The  elements  of  one 
science — Physics  or  Chemistry  preferred. 


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ranee   QxammaTions. 

ARE  GIVEN  IN  JUNE  AND  SEPTEMBER.  EXAMINATIONS  MAY 
BE!  DIVIDED  BETWEEN  SPRING  AND  FALL  OF  THE  SAME 
YEAR,  OR  BETWEEN  THE  SPRING  OR  THE  FALL  OF  TWO 
SUCCESSIVE  YEARS.  ARRANGEMENTS  WILL  BE  MADE  FOR 
GIVING  THE  SPRING  EXAMINATION  AT  A  POINT  ACCESSIBLE 
TO  THE  APPLICANT'S  HOME  WHEN  MORE  THAN  TEN 
HOUR'S  JOURNEY  FROM   BALTIMORE. 


Oldmission   by  certificate. 


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APPLICANTS  ARE  RECEIVED  WITHOUT  EXAMINATION 
UPON  THE  CERTIFICATES  OF  SCHOOLS  WHOSE  CURRI- 
CULUM, CORPS  OF  INSTRUCTORS,  EQUIPMENT  AND  PAST 
WORK  JUSTIFY  THE  EXPECTATION  THAT  THE  PREPARA- 
TION GIVEN  IN  THEM  IS  ADEQUATE  IN  AMOUNT  AND  SUIT- 
ABLE IN  QUALITY. 


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Qjn  order  to  obtain  tke  degree  of  ^achtelor 
of  jftrts,  a  student  must  accomplish 
an  amount  of  worl^  which  is  represented 
by  fifteen  fours  of  class  exercises  per  weelf 
for  four  years  of  thirty-four  wee^s,  not  iq- 
cluding  the  Shristmas  aqd  faster  recesses. 
The  worlf  is  about  eveqly  divided  between 
required  subjects  and  elective  ones.  That 
is,  about  fyalf  the  student's  worl\  may  be 
chosen  by  herself  out  of  a  variety  of  sub- 
jects which  are  offered  hLer.  ^he  must, 
however,  pursue  at  least  one  of  the  subjects 
chosen  by  her  through  two  successive  years, 
iq  courses  of  four  hours  a  wee^. 


COURSES  ARE  OFFERED   IN 


Languages 
...and... 
Literatures. 


THE   ENGLISH    LANGUAGE   AND   LITERATURE. 


Mathematics, 
CliEmistry, 
Physic3j 
Biology  j 


G-Bnlngy, 

MinEralDgy, 
Botany,    ' 
ilnatomy, 


Astronomy, 
History, 


HygiEHE, 
SDcinlngy, 


INSTRUCTION   IS  PROVIDED   IN 


MUSIC— 

Vocal  and 

Instrumental; 


Drawing, 

Fainting, 


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#he    ©lassies. 

C^JTUDENTS  who  select  a  classical  group 
may  pursue  either  Greek  or  Latin 
through  the  four  years,  and  ^the  other 
through  two  or  three  years  ;  or  may  pursue 
each  for  three  years  and  broaden  their  course 
by  introducing  some  other  study.  Classical 
students  must  give  proof  before  graduation 
that  they  also  possess  at  least  a  reading 
knowledge   of   both    French    and    German. 


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yrje   iTJoderr)  JJ(2tr)qu(2iqes. 

The  departments  of  the  Romanic  and  the  Ger- 
manic Languages  and  Literatures  are  particularly 
strong.  After  vocabulary  is  acquired  and  idioms 
have  become  familiar,  the  study  of  the  language  is 
subordinated  to  the  study  of  its  literature,  which  is 
pursued  in  its  nineteenth  century  products  first,  and 
afterwards  through  its  classical  and  its  mediaeval 
periods.  The  instruction  aims  at  developing  in 
the  student  the  faculty  of  seeing  life  from  the 
point  of  view  of  those  whose  traditions  and  sur- 
roundings are  different  from  her  own;  to  broaden 
her  judgment  and  widen  her  range  of  sympathies 
and  to  aid  her  in  taking  up  into  her  own  thought 
the  best  that  has  been  expressed  by  the  greatest 
minds  in  these  literatures. 


THE 

ENGLISH  LANGUAGE  AND 

LITERATURE. 

Many  people  are  inclined  to  the  feeling  that  ex- 
tent of  learning  may  he  measured  by  facility  in  the 
nse  of  foreign  tongues.  The  study  of  foreign  lan- 
guages, ancient  and  modern,  is  indispensable  to 
education,  but  usually  more  for  the  sake  of  deepen- 
ing and  broadening  our  knowledge  of  our  native 
language  than  for  any  practical  use  that  may  be 
made  of  them.  Our  English  speech  is  the  organ  and 
vehicle  of  our  thought,  and  to  possess  acquaintance 
with  it,  to  appreciate  the  literature  which  it  con- 
tains, and  to  be  able  to  use  it  clearly,  forcibly  and 
elegantly  for  the  expression  of  our  own  thoughts 
and  feelings,  is  the  chief  end  of  the  study  of  other 
languages  and  literatures. 

Special  emphasis  is  laid  upon  the  study  of  the 
English  language  and  literature.  Every  student 
must  pursue  it  during  the  first  two  years  of  her 
course. 


c^J  MATHEMATICS,  gy^ 

Plane  Analytic  Geometry, 

Calculus j  Eifferential  and  Integral, 

EetErminants,  Theory  of  Equations, 

Modern  Plane  Analytic  Geometry, 
Solid  Analytic  Geometry, 
IJifferential  Equations, 

Elements  of  the  Theory  of  Functions, 
General  Astronomy, 


Far  the  benefit  nf  students  who  expect  to  teach 
mathematics  "before  entering  upan  a  university 
course  a  brief  outline  of  the  history  of  elementary 
mathematics,  a  discussion  of  methods  Df  mathe- 
matical instruction  and  a  comparative  study  of  the 
leading  text-books  in  Hlgebra,  Geometry  and  Trigo- 
nometry are  offered, 


THE 
NATURAL  SCIENCES. 

Physics,  Geology,! 

Chemistry,  Mineralogy, 

Biology,  Botany. 

The  student  is  introduced  to  her  work  in  the  natural 
sciences  by  the  path  of  personal  investigation,  and  becomes 
acquainted  with  the  forms  and  appearances  of  things  them- 
selves before  she  begins  to  read  or  hear  about  them.  The 
laboratories  are  equipped  with  the  most  approved  modern 
appliances.  The  cabinets  are  rich  in  specimens.  The 
vicinity  of  Baltimore  furnishes  excellent  opportunities  for 
field  work,  and  some  notable  finds"  have  been  made 
which    have    received    the    attention    of   eminent   scientists. 

If  a  student  should  wish  to  do  so,  she  may  pursue  in  the 
four  years  five  science  courses,  each  of  four  hours  weekly, 
throughout  a  year,  exclusive  of  five  hours  a  week  of  labor- 
atory work  for  each  course.  This  is  not,  however,  advised. 
Two  successive  courses  are  offered  in  Physics,  Chemistry 
and  Biology,  so  that  a  student  who  wishes  to.  specialize  in 
either   subject   may  here    lay    good  foundation  for  doing   so. 


SCIENCE    CLUBS,   ETC. 

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THE 
PRELIMINARY  MEDICAL  COURSE. 

This  course  is  arranged  with  reference  to 
the  wants  of  young  women  who  may  con- 
template the  study  of  medicine  after  their 
graduation.  It  contains  such  proportions 
of  Mathematics,  Latin,  French,  German, 
Physics,  Chemistry  and  Biology,  as  lay  the 
most  desirable  foundation  for  that  study. 
Graduates  of  this  college  who  have  taken 
this  course  are  admitted  to  the  Medical 
School  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University 
without  examination  upon  the  certificate  of 
the  College  faculty. 

Courses,  required  of  all  candidates  for 
degrees,  are  given  in  Anatomy,  Physiology 
and  Hygiene. 


HISTORY. 

Five  courses  in  history  are  offered.  One — 
a  general  course,  is  required  in  the  Fresh- 
man year,  the  other  four  are  elective. "?  A 
course  of  four  hours  a  week  through'  a  year 
is  given  in  American  History,  designed  to 
trace  the  political  and  constitutional  de- 
velopment of  the  United  States.  A  course 
in  European  History  of  the  same  length 
studies  the  political  evolution  of  the  great 
European  nations  down  to  the  present 
time,  and  analyses  their  governmental  sys- 
tems and  reforms.  A  course  is  given  on 
English  Political  Institutions  and  another 
on  the  Renaissance,  each  of  two  hours  a 
week  through  the  year. 


ECONOMICS      .. 

...AND... 

..      SOCIOLOGY. 

A  course  in  economics  and  chanties  is  required  in 
order  to  obtain  the  degree.  It  is  given  usually  in  the 
third  year.  A  study  is  made  of  production,  exchange, 
distribution  and  consumption  ;  of  bi-metallism,  the  labor 
movement,  taxation,  the  tariff,  socialism,  monopolies, 
etc.  Part  of  the  course  is  devoted  to  the  study  oi  the 
dependent  and  defective  classes  and  the  methods  ol 
dealing  with  them.  Each  student  undertakes  some 
piece  of  practical  investigation  for  which  the  numerous 
philanthropic  agencies  of  Baltimore  afford  admirable 
opportunity. 

An  elective  course  in  descriptive  sociology  is  also 
offered,  in  which  an  examination  is  made  of  the  scope 
and  method  of  Sociology  and  its  relation  to  Economics, 
Politics  and  the  other  special  social  sciences. 


PHILOSOPHY. 

A  course  equivalent  to  five  hours  a  week  for  one  year 
in  Logic,  Psychology  and  Ethics. 

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BIBLE   STUDY. 

The  late  Rev.  Lyttleton  F.  Morgan,  D.D.,  bequeathed 
the  sum  of  sixty  thousand  dollars  for  the  endowment  of 
a  chair  devoted  to  the  study  of  the  English  Bible.  This 
study  is  pursued  through  the  third  and  fourth  years  in 
courses  of  two  hours  a  week  each.  It  aims  to  promote 
such  an  intelligent  acquaintance  with  the  contents  and 
character  of  the  Bible  as  the  study  of  the  sciences  secures 
for  their  several  subjects,  and  to  preserve  the  student  from 
the  perils  that  grow  out  of  rational  conceptions  of  God's 
works  when  contrasted  with  irrational  conceptions  of 
His  word. 


PHYSICAL  TRAINING. 

A  sound  mind  needs  a  sound  body.  Systematic 
and  compulsory  exercises  are  particularly  needed  by 
young  women.  When  not  occupied  with  their 
tasks,  their  engagements  do  not,  like  those  of 
young  men,  lead  them  out  of  doors,  but  summon 
them  to  the  kitchen  or  nursery,  the  sewing-room  or 
parlor.  Regular  work  in  the  gymnasium  is  required 
three  times  a  week,  and  special  exercises  are  pre- 
scribed when  the  case  demands  it.  The  Swedish 
system  is  used,  which  does  not  seek  the  develop- 
ment of  brawn,  but  the  improvement  of  the  circula- 
tion and  respiration,  dignity  of  carriage,  ease  and 
grace  of  movement. 

This  department  is  in  charge  of  a  physician — a 
lady  of  thorough  training  and  extensive  experience — 
and  the  exercises  are  conducted  by  graduates  of  the 
Royal  Central  Gymnastic  Institute  of  Stockholm, 
Sweden.  In  addition  to  provision  for  systematic 
training,  sports  are  encouraged.  There  are  courts, 
for  tennis,  archery,  hockey  and  basket  ball. 


ART  AND  MUSIC. 

Instruction  in  Art  and  Music  is  provided  for  the  accom- 
modation of  students  who  may  wish  to  ado  these  studies 
to  their  regular  work  in  the  college.  Students  of  art  and 
music  only  will  not  be  received.  Candidates  for  the  degree 
who  are  pursuing  either  Art  or  Music  should  take  five  years 
to  their  work.  The  instruction  which  is  provided  in  these  de- 
partments is  upon  the  high  level  maintained  throughout  the 
institution,  and  the  facilities  which  are  furnished  for  prac- 
tice are  adequate  to  the  purpose  above  stated.  Serious  and 
thorough  work  is  expected,  and  credit  will  not  be  given  for 
work  of  any  other  kind. 

Elementary  but  useful  instruction  in  drawing,  intended  to 
train  eye  and  hand,  is  offered  as  part  of  the  regular  course, 
and  students  are  urged  to  take  it. 


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ACCESSORIES. 

Maps,    charts,  diagrams,  engravings,  photographs, 

easts,  are  liberally  provided  in  all  departments  for  the 
purpose  of  illustration.  Students  are  also  enabled  to 
visit  the  valuable  collections  at  Washington  at  a  trifling 
expense.  Lectures  are  delivered  before  the  students  by 
scholars  eminent  in  their  respective  subjects,  and  oppor- 
tunity is  frequently  afforded,  through  the  courtesy  of 
the  Johns  Hopkins  University,  of  attending  lectures 
delivered  there.  The  Peabody  Institute  also  provides 
courses  of  instructive  lectures  by  eminent  men,  to  which 
Students  have  access  at  a  trifling  cost. 

The  College  possesses  a  carefully  selected  worsting 
library.  Students  have  access  to  the  large  and  valuable 
collections  of  the  Peabody  Institute  and  the  Pratt  Free 
Library.  A  branch  of  the  latter  has  been  established  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  College  for  their  use. 


THE   HOMES. 


Students  are  not  required  to  reside  upon  College 
premises,  but  nearly  all  prefer  to  do  so.  Three  1  Ionics 
have  been  erected  for  their  accommodation,  each  ac- 
commodating from  sixty-rive  to  eighty  residents. 
The  reputation  of  these  Homes  for  simple  elegance, 
comfort,  cheerfulness  and  health  fulness,  is  thoroughly 
established.  They  are  conducted  under  a  system  of 
carefully  considered  regulations,  but  no  annoying 
and  irksome  restrictions  upon  freedom  arc  main- 
tained. Residents  of  the  Homes  are  not  permitted 
to  indulge  in  card-playing  or  dancing  parties,  or  to 
attend  the  theatre  or  opera,  neither  are  they  per- 
mitted to  receive  gentlemen  callers  except  at  speci- 
fied times. 


EXPENSES. 

NON-RESIDENT  STUDENTS. 

The  charge  for  students  who  do  not  reside  in  the  Homes  is  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars,  payable,  seventy-five  dollars  before 
the  first  day  of  October  and  fifty  dollars  before  the  first  day  of  the  fol- 
lowing February.  All  fees  are  included  in  this  charge.  When  more 
than  one  student  is  from  the  same  family  an  abatement  of  twenty- 
five  dollars  will  be  made  upon  the  charges  of  each  student  after  the 
first.* 

RESIDENT  STUDENTS. 

The  charge  for  students  who  reside  in  the  Homes  is  three  hundred 
and  seventy-five  dollars  a  year,  payable,  twenty-five  dollars  upon 
engaging  residence,  two  hundred  dollars  before  the  first  day  of  Octo- 
ber, and  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  before  the  first  day  of  the  fol- 
lowing February.     This  embraces  : 

i.     Tuition  (except  in    Music  and  special   work  in 
Art),  and  laboratory  fees. 

2.  Room,  board,  heat  and  light  for  the  college  year, 

including  the  recesses  of  Christmas  and  Easter. 

3.  The  care  of  a  professional  nurse  in  all  cases  where 

exclusive  services  are  not  required. 

4.  The  washing  of  a  dozen  plain  pieces  each  week, 

not  including  the  bed-linen,  which  is  washed 
without  charge. 


*A  deduction  of  fifty  dollars  is  made  upon  the  tuition  of  daughters  of  min- 
isters. This  makes  the  charges  for  them  seventy-five  dollars  if  non-residents- 
and  three  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  if  residents. 


APPLICATION. 


PERSONS  INTERESTED  IN  KNOWING  MORE 
ABOUT  THE  COLLEGE  THAN  IS  CONTAINED 
IN  THIS  BOOKLET,  SHOULD  WRITE  FOR  THE 
CURRENT   PROGRAM. 

PERSONS  WISHING  TO  MAKE  APPLICATION 
FOR  ADMISSION  SHOULD  WRITE  ALSO  FOR 
BLANKS,  WHICH  WILL  GUIDE  THEM  IN  AP- 
PLYING, AND  ASSIST  THEM  IN  MAKING  THE 
NECESSARY    STATEMENTS. 

ADDRESS  ALL  COMMUNICATIONS   TO 

THE    WOMAN'S    COLLEGE, 

BALTIMORE,    MD. 


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